Comments on: Consume a WordPress RSS Feed in C# and cache it.

By: Jason M

Jason M — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:11:01 +0000

Here is a function to get the 5 fields of the feed:

static IList GetBlogFeed(string feedUrl, int feedCount)
{
XNamespace content = XNamespace.Get(“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”);

var doc = XDocument.Load(feedUrl);
var feeds = doc.Descendants(“item”).Select(x =>
new FeedViewModel
{
Title = x.Element(“title”).Value,
PublishedDate = DateTime.Parse(x.Element(“pubDate”).Value),
Url = x.Element(“link”).Value,
Description = x.Element(“description”).Value,
Content = x.Element(content + “encoded”).Value
}).OrderByDescending(x => x.PublishedDate).Take(feedCount);
return feeds.ToList();
}

By: Jason M

Jason M — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:09:53 +0000

This is great, but you should point out there is a “trick” to getting the content:encoded.

// Declare this
XNamespace content = XNamespace.Get(“http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/”);

// Then later:
Content = x.Element(content + “encoded”).Value

By: tky

tky — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:21:52 +0000

thanks for your sharing, i’m art designer, i still don’t know how to use it, is there any example or demo here? thank you.

By: Moises Myrum

Moises Myrum — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:17:34 +0000

Thanks alot this was helpful. I really love your site, the design is very cool. I have came here a few times but have never left a commented, just wanted to let you know…